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The best art supplies for toddlers👧🏼: Top 9 Favorite🌟
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items Art time is a special time in our house. It’s a chance for the girls to sit down and create something entirely their own, without anyone telling them, “first do this, then do that.” It’s also an opportunity for me to gush over their creations and tel...
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I know there are a lot of giant, triangular, and egg-shaped crayons out there, and if your toddler is into those- great! But I say just get a box of good old fashioned normal-sized crayons. Little crayons are good for building your toddler’s holding ...
#1 Crayon
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Toddlers love markers. Make sure you have the washable kind (unless you’re feeling wild!) and be ready to help when it’s time to clean up. It takes a little while for toddlers to learn to take lids off and put them on again all by themselves.
#2 Marker
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Easels are great because toddlers can stand up and work. Many easels come with a whiteboard side and a chalkboard side, and a clip to hold up paper. Even crayons become more interesting when you’re coloring on a huge paper on an easel.
#3 An Easel
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Toddlers can go through a lot of paper really fast, so we like to buy these giant paper rolls, and unroll as needed.
#4 Paper Roll
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Before you stop reading, hear me out- paint doesn’t have to be super messy. (I shared my tricks for easy paint set-up and clean up here.) A sheet under your workspace and a painting smock will go a long way.
My girls both started painting when they ...
#5 Washable paint
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Even the smallest artists can get the hang of using a paint brush. I dab a little paint on a paper plate, put some paper on the easel, and hand them a paint brush. This is a toddler’s equivalent to a million dollars.
#6 Paint brushes
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Finger paint is also sure to be a hit! It provides great color-mixing practice, too. Dab a little bit of red, yellow, and blue onto a huge sheet of paper, and tell your little one to start mixing.
#7 Finger paint
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My daughters both loved stampers. Maybe because they got to bang them down on the paper.
#8 Stampers
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Toddlers aren’t too small to start learning to use glue. You’ll need to spend a little bit of time teaching them to make little dots, but they’ll catch on before you know it. We buy a few bags of foam shapes, buttons, feathers, etc. at the dollar sto...
#9 White glue